time to celebrate

Had dinner with my officemates at Dampa last night after work. It was a semi-celebration for me as well, since am now no longer a probationary employee. Weee! I passed the training period. I was so scared I wouldn't pass since I ask a lot of questions to the officers. (Pls. put emphasis on LOT. haha) Then, I was super touched because Sir Eric told me about the contributions I have made to the banks' operations...I never thought about those as noteworthy contributions. I just felt I was helping him out, since we are a team.

Back to last nite, we left work around 530, and had trouble hailing a cab since it was Friday and gimmick day for just about everyday. Got annoyed because there were some taxi's that just wanted to go to Quezon City or somewhere else. Why do taxi's choose where they want to go? That's so ironic. When we got there, we went to the market area to buy dinner. It was pretty funny, we were all girls (7 of us) but none of us knew how to choose seafoods, so Sir Eric was the one who bought the seafoods while we all looked on and did the carrying. After we were done choosing from the array of meat, shellfish, crustaceans, and fish, we went to Robbie's where they turned the stuff we bought into mouth-watering, tummy-filling, now edible food. We were so full! And, we still had enough for takeout. All this cost each of us around Php350. Pretty cheap.

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Other blog-worthy events:
-One of my friends from the embassy is going back to China. :( I'm sure going to miss her. She's also one of my favorite clients. She's always so nice to everyone, even when there are a lot of people and it takes us a while to finish her transactions.

-I'm planning to take cooking classes, baking in particular. I just feel that it's actually time I learned a skill. Or I might take up language courses, I did always want to learn how to speak French.

-Diko and family came over from New Jersey last August 12. Had lots of fun catching up and playing with my youngest cousin. Kids really do say the darnedest things.He was always saying something that made us laugh, but I think it was more of the innocent look he had on his face every time.

Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it

There was a drought of clients last last week, so I somewhat hoped that there would be some new clients this week so that I would have something to do, aside from filing and doing other stuff that aren't really part of my job description.

Well, my wish came true this week, only the clients that came all gave me headaches. One wanted to forge the signature of the corporate secretary, the other used his maid to be the chairman of the board therefore they lacked all the necessary ID's, and yet another one forged his boss' signature on the withdrawal slip and expected us to let him withdraw...And they all got mad at me, saying why I was making it so difficult for them. Excuse me, who's making it difficult for who? What if I get audited? These people are just so unreasonable and inconsiderate. What's with these people anyway? This is not a child's game where you can make all the rules. And no, I will DEFINITELY not let you have your way just because you're Chinese and I'm Chinese. That is just not a valid reason. I really hate it when people expect me to give them special treatment just because we're both Chinese.

tu justificas mi existencia

I'm so happy lately..with this happiness it makes me kinda insecure and uneasy at times. There are times when I'm so scared that I'm going to get hurt if one day I wake up and realize that this is not what I really want. I hope that that day will not happen, or if it does, no one gets hurt by it. The latter is pretty impossible, I know. There are a lot of times where I'm not sure if what am doing is right, if he's the right person or if we are indeed a perfect match. I'm still starting to learn about love...and for now, I find that love is not just a feeling that you feel. It's more of a decision, a decision to accept a person, including his/her flaws.

I never knew how good it feels to have someone caring for you all the time.

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Had dinner with Erika, Aileen, Malt at John and Yoko last Friday. Food was great..It was neo-Japanese food at its' best. Love the Crispy Squid Teriyaki and like their sushi selections.


Watched Dark Knight with Melvs last week...Heath Ledger's performance was superb! It gave me chills everytime, he put his knife close to his victims' face and asks, "Why so serious? Let me put a smile on your face."